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Looking Forward to November

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  It’s kinda weird writing this blog post. I just wrote another blog post where I summed up all the bad stuff that happened in October, as well as this year, so I was feeling pretty disheartened after I finished writing it.   Should I look forward to the new month that is upon us? There are some good things planned for the new month, so I would like to think I can at least feel a little bit of hope that next month will be better than this month.   I guess we will see!   I usually don’t want to jinx anything by mentioning plans, because then those plans won’t come about! I also believe that instead of talking about what you are going to do, you should talk about what you have done.   But I need to get ALL of this stuff out of my head and down on the, er, screen so that I can keep track of it all.   So, here is what is on the horizon for November:   The month of November will see the launch of a new publishing division at Twiste...

Books Read in October

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  NOTE: I know I usually post my reading list on the last day of the month, but this month’s list is being posted early because I have way too much going on tomorrow, not the least of which includes Halloween stuff! So here is an early Happy Halloween!   The month of October was another whirlwind month! I started a new gig and there were some other things that were also keeping me busy. One of them is preparing for the launch of an imprint at Twisted Dreams Press that I will be in charge of. It is scheduled to debut next month and I am very excited about this!   But October has been a difficult month for me, too. For most of the month, I fell into a deep depression. Yes, I kept functioning and doing all the things that I had to do, but I had that lingering sadness really hit me hard. So hard, in fact, that I had no energy to decorate for Halloween, which is unusual for me because I usually go all out for Halloween every year. I practically turn our house into a Ha...